On the Track: A Guide to Contemporary Film Scoring

This book is a comprehensive guide to scoring for film and television. It covers everything from timing, cuing, and recording through balancing the composer's vision with the needs of the film itself. It contains over 100 interviews with noted composers and musical examples.

Author: Fred Karlin, Rayburn Wright
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 01/08/2004
Pages: 560
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 3.35lbs
Size: 10.90h x 8.30w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780415941358

About the Author

Fred Karlin won an Oscar for Best Song for "For All We Know." an Emmy for his score for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, and numerous other industry awards. He is the author of Listening to Movies (1994).

The late Rayburn Wright created the Jazz Studies and Contemporary Media Masters Program at the Eastman School of Music of the University ofRochester and erved as director and professor of the department from 1970 until his death in 1990.